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Table 3 Healthcare use characteristics of older persons with and without out-of-hours GPCa contact (n = 32,149)

From: Older persons are frailer after an emergency care visit to the out-of-hours general practitioner cooperative in the Netherlands: a cross-sectional descriptive TOPICS-MDS study

Use of professional healthcare (n)

out-of-hours GPC contact

no out-of-hours GPC contact

ORb

95% CIc

P-valued

n

%

n

%

Admission to the hospital (29,824)

      

< 0.0001

 Yes

3204

39.1

4986

60.9

2.88

2.71–3.06

 

 No

4343

18.3

19,334

81.7

1

  

Home care (31,602)e

      

< 0.0001

 Yes

3152

28.8

7811

71.2

1.37

1.28–1.47

 

 No

4294

20.8

16,345

79.2

1

  
  1. a GPC general practitioner cooperative. b OR Odds Ratio based on multilevel analysis, adjusted for gender, age, socioeconomic status and cluster effects between studies. c CI confidence interval. d bold p-values are statistically significant. e only for older persons living at home